Tagged - The Impact World This Week

This week: Warburtons partners with Bolton Council to serve up social supermarket; Dame Caroline Mason to step down as Esmée Fairbairn Foundation CEO; Eight corporates spent more than €71m with European social economy enterprises in 2025, and more.

This week: French savers’ commitments to social investments grow by 15%; ‘UK first’ child-lens investment fund launches in South Yorkshire; campaign launch for a social enterprise ‘new deal’ in Ireland, and more.

This week: half of major financial institutions still don’t have climate transition plans, according to the World Benchmarking Alliance; Mariana Mazzucato talks about ‘common good economy’ in her new book; who’s made it to the BlueMark leaderboard this year, and more.

This week: UK social enterprises recognised in King’s Awards for Enterprise, Bob Geldof backs social enterprise model to fight homelessness, Better Futures Fund looks for a delivery partner, and more.

This week: Mariana Mazzucato launches Global Council for a Common Economy with Spanish government; Impact investors to avoid taking political sides in 2026; bring your fox to a conference, and more.

This week: grants to encourage consolidation among impact investing field-builders, BBC asylum-seekers investigation angers LGBTQI social enterprise and a boost for place-based investment in England.

This week: Skoll awardees revealed, Japan’s latest impact investment market sizing, and new opportunities for Australia’s rural communities.

This week: Better Society Capital’s new 2030 strategy; B Lab announces new board and shift towards “globally integrated” structure; Impact Shakers launches new initiative to spotlight diverse-led startups, and more.

This week: new B Lab standards go live for all businesses, ImpactAssets unveils IA50 list, and the GIIN and UNICEF partner to embed children’s outcomes in impact investors’ decisions.